Nanaimo’s Travis Baker earns $2.5-million grant for research at Rutgers University-Newark
Ashnola at the Crossing will be replaced by 30 treatment beds split between 2 new locations
The facility has 8 treatment beds and 4 transitions suites
St. Paul’s sees a high volume of patients suffering from mental health crises and drug poisonings
The Seven Nations Soaring Eagle Healing Centre near Creston will offer treatment for substance-use disorders
Length of support also expanding from 30 to 90 days
A total of 174 British Columbians died in February from toxic drug supply
Chris Lamoureux about to begin studying to be peer support worker
Women’s residential care in Interior, day programs in North
After IH pulled funding in May, Pathways’ phones ringing with people in crisis
Minister Sheila Malcolmson of Mental Health and Addictions says the government is working ‘as hard as we can’ to build a system of care for youths
Of it, $152 million will be used to address the opioid crisis and see the creation of 195 new substance use treatment beds
Penticton’s Discovery House raised over $14,000 and dished out over 1,800 bowls of soup
Pathways has been in Penticton for over 20 years and has 10 staff, serving around 1,000 people
‘Research has shown when families are involved in a patient’s care they typically have greater success’
The grant would provide $100K a year over three years to a Community Action Team
Kimberly Christianson is speaking up after she lost her daughter to an overdose
